Walla Walla College by E. C. Kellogg

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Aug 3, 1911

Walla Walla College

By E. C. Kellogg

WALLA WALLA COLLEGE was founded in 1892, and is thus one of our oldest training-schools. It has done a good work in giving young people a Christian education, and it is purposed that this mission may abound more and more.

Including the campus the college owns a sixty-acre tract of land which is especially adapted to fruit and garden purposes, and is abundantly watered from an artesian well. It also owns a herd of choice Jersey cattle, including twelve cows. These were recently examined by the State veterinarian, and found to be free from tuberculosis. The examining officer said this herd was one in four of the best he had found in two years.

COLLEGE BUILDING AT COLLEGE PLACE,
WASHINGTON — COLLEGE BUILDING AT COLLEGE PLACE, WASHINGTON

The school maintains a broom factory, a carpentry department including trunk-making, a food factory, a grocery and supply store, a printing-office, and an excellent laundry. It gives a course in mechanical engineering, one also in domestic science, and has a strong department in dressmaking. Upon the satisfactory completion of time required in any industry, a certificate of attainment is granted the student.

Intellectual Interests

It is the purpose of the school to carry forward good, earnest work, and maintain a high degree of scholarship. It is believed that the intellectual atmosphere should be charged with cheerfulness, honest endeavor, enthusiasm, and victory.

The following courses of study, together with the church-school and intermediate grades, are offered by the college management: Academic, collegiate, Biblical, normal, medical preparatory, commercial, shorthand, and German. The usual diplomas and degrees are granted upon completion of work.

Though the library is small, it has some satisfactory works, and it is making a steady growth. The work in astronomy has the benefit of a first-class four-and-one-half-inch acromatic telescope, which is provided with equatorial mounting. The importance of laboratory facilities is duly considered, and the physical, chemical, and biological departments have a good equipment.

The normal department, which has a large enrolment, enjoys the privileges and benefits of a separate building. In the music department, work is offered in voice, violin, reed-organ, pipe-organ, and pianoforte. A choral society and an orchestra are maintained.

A teachers' institute and summer normal will be held at Parkdale, Ore., July 18 to Aug. 29, 1911. A large attendance is assured.

Spiritual Considerations

The religious interests are considered of prime importance. The Bible is given an honored place by those in charge. Religious services are held each day in the chapel, and morning and evening worship is conducted in the home. Sabbath-school and other services are held each Sabbath, and there are also weekly missionary and prayer-meetings. Eternal values are given proper consideration, and God's kingdom and his righteousness are placed first. It is vastly more important to win a soul than to gain the world.

Does an Education Pay?

Does it pay to become familiar with all the lessons that history and science can teach us in regard to making life healthy and successful? Does it pay to have expert advice and training, to have high ideals held up to one in the most critical years of life? Does it pay to acquire character-wealth, a soul-property which no disaster nor misfortune can wreck or ruin?

Reasons for a College Education

There are many reasons in favor of a college education. At the educational convention held in Berrien Springs, Mich., last summer, Prof. J. L. Shaw said: “We need young men and women in the mission field who have taken degrees in our schools. Such an education prepares them for foreign service. If they have finished a course of study, if they have grappled with the problems in their studies, they have a fitting up and a preparation that will enable them to stick to the job that they have taken in the foreign land. They will take a proposition, and they will carry it through. . . . My experience in a foreign field is that the individuals who have taken these courses in our schools, and have remained in them until they have finished, have been the better men and women for the work in those fields.”

Walla Walla College is the training-school of the Northwest for Christian workers. An attractive calendar for the current season is now ready. Correspondence solicited. Address the undersigned, at College Place, Wash.

E. C. KELLOGG, President.